THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF NIKLAUS STOECKLIN HD 1080p
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ส.ค. 2023
- I'm constantly surprised by how many great 20th century illustrators Ive managed to be completely ignorant of before I started making these videos. And many of these discoveries have yielded some breathtaking examples of illustrated work, published in any number of formats and areas of expression. Niklaus Stoecklin is yet another who more than proves this point as far as I'm concerned, and should be considerably better known and admired than he currently is. Maybe this video will help.
Your last line in the video, "... we are current settling for considerably less than second best" is so true. It's a shame imaginative advertising images, such as those by Stoecklin, are no longer being created. Thank you for another visit to a wonderful bygone age.
Hello and yes it's sad but true about the world of advertising. It was a real tragedy when lazy art directors started to favour photography over illustration.
@@petebeard Or in case they happen to favour illustration they prefer ugly and disgusting ones.
It never fails. Every time I watch one of your videos, the illustrator you are highlighting becomes my favorite.
Hi again and thanks. That's pretty much my response to these lesser known talents too.
@@petebeard same sentiment and your voice Pete! Truly brilliant
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.
Wonderful. Your final statement summed up my feelings too. I'm sure we're about to see a deluge of AI generated images in advertising - removing what little art still remained in an always-tainted creative arena. But people like Stoeklin were allowed or even encouraged to make beautiful and intriguing images to shift products.
Don't underestimate artists because they work in a commercial area because they can make money doing so. If nothing else it provides them with a living. Most artists in the past had to find employment doing portraits of wealthy or powerful men and women whose looks or personal habits might get them cancelled in these days. Even those who painted religious scenes might well have been happier revelling in more worldly or secular scenes but these didn't pay well or pay at all. Raphael, I believe, used a prostitute as his model for the Madonna.
Money influences art and always has and always will. And it usually rewards talent.
I'd never underestimate the artists. The taint I refer to comes from the people with the money. Be they Dukes or ad execs, they have no justification for deciding what gets made except their very special and nasty interests@@frankmorlock1403
Hello and obviously I agree. There is still some truly remarkable illustration being created but precious little in the world of advertsing as far as I can tell. And believe me I've looked.
Yes, I felt the same way when watching that video. AI will make it more challenging for the next generations of artists to make a living from illustration.
Wow! Another exceptional artist and video. Thank you Peter B.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation.
I love your presentations and discovering the work of so many incredible artists. Your voice is soothing and watching is enjoyable and relaxing. Thank you for these videos!!
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. It's most welcome.
Absolutely beautiful!! And I totally agree today we settle for much less than second best. We have lost touch with "beauty" in so many different forms, it seems. Thank you for such a lovely video!!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of this video and my contribution to it.
What a joy to watch. Such a talent! Thank you Pete Beard!
Hello again and I'm glad you - and quite a few other viewers it seems - like his work.
Great video. What a talent.
Hello and thanks for the comment.
This was intense, beautiful, really love how these artists have so many imaginations.
This is always a moment of joy seeing this, thanks to you.
Hello again and Im very pleased you enjoyed another video.
What a remarkarkably versatile illustrator. I caught myself exclaiming this is a genius several times while watching this video.
Hello and thanks. I felt the same as I was making the video.
What an astonishing body of work! Thanks for bringing this prolific artist to our attention ❤
Hello and I'm very glad you appreciate his remarkable output.
Thanks, Pete. Another artist whose skills and talent knew no bounds.
Hello again and thanks for the comment and appreciation as usual. Stoecklin seems to have been pretty popular with viewers so far.
only the edge of the canvas ☺
The diversity of styles he caressed is amazing. One knows him... sort of. Again, thank you for shining a light on this extraordinary artist.💕
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.
So many killer pieces, wonderfully presented… Thanks Pete!
Hello and many thabks for your appreciation.
An amazing visual smorgasbord He really put his heart into so many works. Genius.
Thanks again for your work. It's inspiring to take in and appreciate so much beauty.
Take care Pete.
Hello again and thanks as ever for your support. 'Visual smorgasbord' - I like that.
Just discovered this channel… (shame). Now it‘s my favorite!!!!
Hello and the shame resides with youtube, who for reasons I can't imagine don't seem very eager to promote the channel. Anyway, I'm glad you are with us now.
Thanks very much. This artist had an immense influence to swiss poster design.
Hello and thanks for the comment. Outside Switzerland he is unjustifiably unknown. And I'm glad to say I've got a couple more Swiss poster designers in the pipeline.
I'm looking forward!
Thank you for introducing another talented artist/illustrator.
Hello again and you are, as always, very welcome.
Wow! Fantastic artist 👍🏻
Hello and yes he certainly was.
Thank you for your great videos. There is so much wonderful art of the past that we never find or stumble upon. What a joy.😀
Hi and thanks for your appreciation. I'm doing my best to get these talented people wider recognition.
I particularly liked his naturalist paintings. Thanks
Hello and I'm more inclined to the posters, but that's the beauty of it - something for everyone.
Wow! This is revelatory!I had never heard of this artist, and his work is absolutely beautiful. What a magnificent output and aesthetic accomplishment. The diversity of styles is remarkable. As you say, commercial art today is far removed from the images seen here. Thank you for your thoughtful and insightful presentation of Stoecklin's work.
Hello and I'm delighted that you are impressed by Stoecklin's remarkable work. It's hard not to be in awe of his talent.
What a remarkable talent, what remarkable creativity and what a remarkable imagination. Thanks Pete for a great mini biography of an amazing artist.
Hello again and thanks as usual. Although I don't see my function as a biographer for the illustrators I show, it would have been nice if i could have found out at least a little bit more about his life.
A genuine artistic chameleon. I appreciate his stubbornness to adapt and carry on.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation of his work.
Oh lovely, the squirrel brushing its teeth is delightful TS 8:08 & his *Beauties of Nature* are wonderful. I like his poster art w/ its clean to the point designs so I agree w/ you *Pete* as to its description & economy. He had a good attitude to his art & it shows in ALL his work. Piano score is perfect for this ... *Thanks Pete*
Hi again and as usual thanks for the comment and stars. It's great when viewers such as yourslf actually highlight aspects of the video that have been significant when watching. I really liked that squirrel too, but my favourite was the man in the bowler hat viewed from behind - years before Magritte too.
Every video I watch is so exquisite that I'm amazed once again. Not just the works at hand, but also the fine film that carries us along is a sublime experience.
Hello and your enthusiastic comment about the content and my efforts putting it together are both greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for another fascinating video of another amazing artist! 💙🙏🏽😎
Hello again, and I'm pleased to say there are still plenty more in the pipeline (much to my surprise).
Thanks so much for this and all your other episodes! I’ve finally watched all of them and I’m excited to start rewatching.
This episode is serendipitous because I have long hoped you might put together an episode on the history of biological illustration, an enormous subject but one upon which I’d love to hear your thoughts
Hello and many thanks for your dedication to the channel. I hope you'll be happy to know there are still a vast number waiting in the wings and in the pipeline. I certainly have a wildlife (as in animals) project on the go, and I'm considering another on the illustration of flora. Whether that counts as biological I'm not sure. I'm on shaky ground here regarding terminology but I think of biological as more diagrammatic or images of what a horse's digestive tract looks like, and that's definitely outside my frames of reference.
What an absolute gem!! So many different styles he mastered! That is fantastic and rarely seen today! Fantastic video again Pete👍 Cheers from Denmark🥰
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of his work and my video.
What an incredible range of styles.
Thanks for the comment - and you can say that again.
Bold and beautiful. These posters are terrific. Thanks for sharing this artwork.
Hello and thanks for your comment and appreciation.
Interesting showcase on this artist Mr. Beard! I must agree with your last statements, thinking about it, I can't remember the last piece of ad work that wasn't just a picture of a guy using the product smiling, after a while all starts looking the same on the endless sea of mundane ads, things like Niklaus work not only helped distinguish the product but it also gave a little of life and variety to the city landscape.
Hello and thanks for your comment. And it is quite depressing to realise how low the advertising industry in general has sunk. I'm old enough to remember (and even worked in the business) before its fall from grace.
Amazing Pete, as per usual. Thanks.
Hello and I'm pleased to say this video is doing rather well with viewers.
Beautiful stuff! I love how he portrays botanical/nature subjects in particular, I feel I must have seen some of his paintings of orchids at some point, they are fun plants to draw and paint (I bet he must have visited somewhere where they were being grown)!
Hi and thanks a lot for your comment, I'm glad you enjoyed his work.
Wow!!!!! What an Artist! Thank you, Pete.
I'm spending weekend at my dacha, so watched this episode on the phone, but I'll sure watch it again on the wide screen when I'm back tomorrow.
To me this is a discovery. They gave us a brief survey on Swiss graphic design, but for some strange reason this artist was not even mentioned. Outstanding works, especially posters. Another thing is that something tells me this guy was introduced to mushrooms. Nowadays when one can easily order by mail all necessary materials to grow (say) Psilocybe Cubensis at his home this doesn't look surprising, but what they used to have in Switzerland back then?
Anyway, thanks again Pete and I hope to see many, many videos like this from you!
Hello and thanks for the comment and very interesting observations. I was taught the principles of Swiss graphic design when at college but it was all the typographical stuff. I don't recall a simgle image that wasn't photographic. I'm pleased to say I've got a couple more similarly illustrative Swiss designers in the pipeline too. And regarding the mushrooms one of his major clients was Roche pharmaceuticals, which may have given him easier access to such things. Who knows?
Thank you very much for this enlightened presentation! I am, again, blown away by this artist's work!
Hello and I'm very pleased you appreciate the quality of Stoecklin's work. Criminally under-appreciated I think.
12 minutes of wonderment at an artist of whom I had never heard. Thank you for posting and the work you put into the production.
Hello and many thanks for your positive response to the video.
Another installment that I have learned a considerable amount of this unknown artist..love his work and diversity. Greatly appreciated this post..keep up the great work !!!!
Many thanks for your ongoing support of the channel. Many more in the pipeline, I'm pleased to say.
Amazing simply amazing, the range, the skill, the creativity, the imagination, simply inspirational. Thanks
Hello and yes, all the above in Stoecklin's case. No idea how he's become so obscure.
Thanks again, and again, and again, your dedication is very much appreciated.
... and so is your continuing interest in the channel. Thanks.
Another great discovery...guided by Pete. The amount of "unsung artists" is a not ending matter, but is your investigation that allow us to arrive them....thanks Pete! These videos are gems to our holidays time!
Hello again and thanks so much for your continued interest and appreciation of the channel. Me and my wife will be heading to Marbella in a couple of weeks- first time out of the country since covid.
Simply beautiful artwork. It's incredibly inspiring. And I am happy that he took pride in his work across genres and contexts. What a prolific, multi talented and skilled artist/illustrator. Thank you very much for another wonderful episode.
Hello again and thanks as usual. So far he seems to have been a fairly popular choice, and I'm glad to say there are other similarly versatile talents waiting their turn
I watch with great enthusiasm and learn so much from your research and masterful presentation.
Then, I immediately impatiently wait for your next! I'm hooked!! Tnx!
He again and thanks as usual. There are still many more I've not featured yet.
Born and growing up in Basel I am very familiar with his work. But finally i have a name! Thank you! Even go to art school in Basel and having a master in illustration, no one ever talked about Stöcklin! Thank you that was so informative and wonderful!
Hello and it's astonishing that he wasn't mentioned during your education. I thought it was just in Britain that art schools were rubbish. Thanks a lot for your appreciation.
@@petebeard thank you for all your effort and work you put into this wonderful channel. It’s a well appreciated source of inspiration 🩵
I loved that one. I envy these guys, I couldn't imagine spending all day , everyday, doing art work. This guy spent most of his time doing art work just look at the volume of work he did. So someone else had to do everything else. The list of all the mediums you mentioned he used could fill a room. All the different styles he used really sets him a part from other creators. I thought it would be neat to hear what he had to say about art, but his book had no words. Incredible body of work though, thanks.
Hello again and thanks for the comment. It does seem to be the case with virtually all these illustrator/artists that their restless creativity puts us lesser mortals to shame. Even if mine was never more than a walk-on part I still really enjoyed most of my own 40-odd years at the drawing board.
How you have Blessed us all with these wonderful videos... I watch them over and over. I always look so forward to your next one. Thank you so much as I can only imagine how much work and research these take.
Hello and I'm very grateful for your appreciation of my work on the channel. But if I'm honest it doesn't feel like hard work - it's very rewarding.
Hi Pete. What a wonderful illustrator was Niklaus Stoecklin! WOW, I loved all his work, but especially his surrealist ones, made me think of Rene Magritte a lot. And his super clean and precise technique allowed him to make the objects look heavy, like real volumes. But also it was so wonderful to see his other solutions that were more graphic and flat. Another great illustrator/artist I didn't know. Thanks a lot, Pete.
Hello and thanks for the comment. And yes there was quite a similarity. So much so I looked up some dates and he was using surrealism before Magritte got round to it. And the bowler hatted man poster predates Magritte's character by more than a decade. Coincidence?
Ευχαριστώ Pete για την τόσο ολοκληρωμένη παρουσίαση του N. Stoecklin ενός τόσου ενδιαφέροντος καλλιτέχνη. Keep the Good Work going.
Thanks again and I wont be stopping any time soon (I hope).
Beautifully done. Thank you.
Hello and thanks a lot. I think Herr Stoecklin should get most of the credit though. I'm just the messenger.
9:32 that fold on the post stamp.. perfekt!
Hello and thanks for the comment. And yes I noticed that too and thought it a really nice touch.
fascinating character, you are right, he's quite the artist and illustrator! first time I heard of him! that's a shame on me
Thanks for your comment and I'm pleased you appreciate his work. The shame isn't on you but on the art historians, academics and critics who have failed to promote the work of talents such as this.
Fantastic, your videos have certainly showcased many artists that deserve wider recognition.
Hello again and thanks as usual. The 'wider recognition' certainly seems to be working in this instance, I'm pleased to say.
An artist of truly awesome flexibility in style, and this is an age where the quickest way to recognition is to become, as it were, a caricature of oneself! I will name only Kincaid. I'm very impressed with how Stoeklin incorporated the old German handwriting -- so angular and seemingly inartistic -- into so many of his works. (yes, I have old family papers done in this lettering) The 'artification' (our time has seen far more grotesque coinages!) of advertising; as opposed to the Warholian 'advertisingization' of art!
What a wonderfully inventive artist. This si what annoys me about Ipswich Art College in the late seventies. No damn library that you could explore except after a traipse to the main college and then you should be having your lunchbreak! What did we do at the main college? Sculpture department was over there and Monday afternoons we traipsed over there for 'Liberal Studies' which was a complete waste of time! I would have much rather have spent Monday afternoon researching artists like this. Now, through these marvellous videos, I am finding more artists. Late, but extremely welcome!
My state university library had an enormous amount of art books ( 50 years ago). But I wish there was more emphasis on the talented artist-illustrators, that Peter features here, in their fine arts department.
@@sidilicious11 The artist Maggi Hambling was a student at Ipswich and she said that all she learnt there was how to roll cigarettes. I and one or two others despaired and left early.
Hello and thanks for the appreiation and comment. Even when I was at art school (69 -73) some college libraries were fairly useless, and seemed to tink if was their role to reinforce the dominance of the more obvious figures, and to make the inference that illustration and graphics meant little when stacked up against supposed fine art.
@@petebeard The word that I apply to such institutions is anthropochaotic. Their purpose seeming to look busy and purposeful but having neither depth nor useful intentionality.
Certainly an artist's artist he was. Such a broad range of technique is something I personally aspire to. I truly enjoy his city scenes, such as those at 3:25 and 10:00
Thanks as usual for your comment and appreciation, and in his case Id struggle to pick out any favourites.
Hello sir I am impressed by the amount of knowledge you put in your content. Each time I think he can't do more, you prove me wrong thks for that and good luck ❤❤❤
Hello and I'm very glad that I continue to prove you wrong. There are still plenty more to come, I'm pleased to say.
Gorgeous artworks. Splendid video.
Hello again and thanks a lot for your comment.
Amazing work , thank you Pete.
Hello and thanks for the comment. How Stoecklin could be so talented and now so ignored beggars belief.
A real artistic dynamo, Pete! Thanks so much!
Hi again and that's a neat way of describing him.
Thank you for introducing me to an illustrator I was not aware of. There are so many European masters that are just ignored in the US. I appreciate alll the time and energy you put into creating such a wonderful video.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. Sadly it is true that many in the USA show little interest for illustrators this side of the Atlantic, but over here the reverse can be true also. This is one of the reasons I think the internet (when used properly) can actually create a global village of shared knowledge.
Again many thanks. I plan to go back through your library to see the other wonderful things you've produced.@@petebeard
Wow, fantastic work and video exposing it. Thanks Peter
Hi and thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.
Great episode! As usual, I'd never heard of this wonderfully talented artist. Such mastery of technique and vision across such a range of styles.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. If it's any consolation i had never encountered his work until a few months ago. Another instant favourite for me.
@@petebeard Well, the whole point of your channel is to showcase the wonderful work of artists most of us haven't heard of so there's no shame in such ignorance.
While I'm being appreciative, I'll also praise your sober and informative commentary, which always enhances the experience. Too many commentators seem to think their job is to dramatise everything.
Thanks for the presentation. I like what appears to be the simplicity of poster design, yet is highly thought out. Similar to an actor making something look easy, when it is not.
And once again thabks for the appreciation and observation.
Really well done video. Thank you. I shared a link to it in one of my art groups.
Hello and thanks for your comment - and particularly for sharing. The more the merrier from my point of view.
So interesting to learn about his work. Thank you.
Hi and as usual you are more than welcome.
Such abundance of imagination and applied craftsmanship…..the ten thousand hour requirement for a master to succeed is rare these days. Thanks to mr. Beard the coal continues to glow….waiting for the divine breath of tomorrows dedicated artists to kick AI in the digital goolies….
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. And I (and suspect the vast majority of viewers of the channel) share your opinion of the obscenity that is AI.
I love those artist biographies.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Very interesting artist, like this style very much.
Hello and me too.
Excellent!! Marvelous!!
Hello and I'm very glad you enjoyed his work.
I really wish your series had been available when I was a student back in the sixties. The only source of past masters then was our local library, a good library, but ...
Hello, and as a veteran of that period myself my college library wasn't too bad, but the accent was firmly on art rather than graphic design and illustration. And the trouble with books for me was - and is - that they tend to be more the egotistical words of the writer and less about the pictures.
Fantastic!
Hello and Im glad you appreciate his work.
I don't know if this will interest anyone, but I tried Niklaus Stoecklin out as a prompt in my favorite free AI art generator and got some interesting results. I used familiar characters from myth and literature such as Falstaff, Captain Ahab, Baron Samedi, Desdemona and the like. Roughly fifty images. Almost all very striking and different from other artists. I particularly liked Desdemona.
Pete I was trying to remember the name of your channel recently, I'm a subscriber with notifications on but haven't seen any of your videos come up in the algorithm for about a year! I searched 'life story of Arthur Rackham' and thankfully your channel came up. What I specifically remember really liking about your channel is how you explained the life challenges and difficulties each illustrator faced, from having to join the army to health problems etc. It helps me to put my own problems in perspective and continue with my own designs and illustrations. A great channel.
Hello and thanks a lot. I don't even understand what an algorithm is but it would seem that it doesn't do a lot in my case. But I think just a search for my name does yield results. Why the gremlins don't notify those who have requested such I have no idea.
Stupid algorithm. The notification bell is set to 'personalized' by default, and nobody knows what that means. Your channel, the research and work you do, and the inspirational art and artists you've curated, certainly, at the least, deserves the 'all' notification setting.@@petebeard
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. Pardon my complete ignorance but does that mean I can change that setting, or is it set by youtube, and not something I have control over? Like so much in this life...
@@PaulMcCannWebBuilder I always change the notification bell to 'All' when I subscribe to make sure I see each channels content. But despite that the algorithm shows me either what it wants to promote, or more of what I've clicked on in the past. In a sensible world the algorithm would prioritise showing channels we've subscribed to before anything else.
@@petebeardIt's not your fault, it's youtube and how it's set up. The best thing you can do is ask your viewers to like, subscribe and leave a comment about the video (you could ask us a question about each Illustrator for example). The resulting increased activity on your channel from viewers then tells the algorithm that people are engaging a lot with your content, so it promotes it more. It's tedious to have to do this but unfortunately it's the way TH-cam, Instagram and other apps and websites work at the moment with algorithms deciding what content gets shown to who.
Great video! I love your insight and art studies on these wonderful illustrators. I don't know if you take requests, but if you do, could you make a video on the artwork of John Alcorn? He did a lot of work in the 60s and 70s, and he's quite unique. Thank you for your amazing, educational videos 💖
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. I do take requests with the one proviso that I have to feel personally enthusiastic enough about the subject to do them justice. And although I had only been peripherally aware of John Alcorn's work through his connection with Push Pin studios, your suggestion had me scurrying off to learn more. And he looks like a strong contender for inclusion to me. I should warn you that he will be joining a worryingly long queue and it's to be hoped I don't fall off my perch any time soon, but he's added to the list, and I'm extremely grateful to you for bringing him to my attention.
I love Alcom's work. And miss it terribly.
Thanks Pete, that was an especially enjoyable revelation. I liked the mix of more or less surreal posters with the more or less magically realistic insects, snakes, flowers etc and especially when they were combined. Some of the illustrations are excellent observation, like the Amanita muscaria on your header with a fly on the cap (it is the Fly Agaric) and what seems to be a dead snail to the right and snail feeding scars on the stipe - did the snail feed and succumb to the toxins? Also the mantid with the remnants of a Cabbage White looked very much like an after dinner mantid party. Very relaxing and entertaining for me after a long day - thanks again. Hard to believe someone so talented is so poorly remembered.
Hello and many thanks for your comments - and observations I had totally missed. Hopefully now he won't be quite so poorly remembered.
stunning work.
Hello and I'm delighted you think so. What a talent.
Thank you. Obrigado. 🇬🇧🇵🇹
Thanks as ever for your comment.
This man is truly amazing. Thanks to the Covid, I've spent the last several years listening to music by composers I never heard of and watching videos about artists and illustrators I never heard of. Many deserve to be much better known. You've done a wonderful job in bringing forgotten artists back to light. I got interested in illustration as an author because I was looking for attention grabbing art as covers for my books (mostly plays and translations of plays.) Until recently I would pour over images available on the internet and I flatter myself I was getting pretty good at it. Your videos were very helpful in this regard. Then, about six months ago I got interested in AI. Unlike those who view AI as a threat, I see it as an empowerment. I know what I want, because I wrote or translated the book but now, instead of rummaging through cyberspace to find an image, I can generate an image that suits my intentions. I don't always get what I want but I usually get something suitable
if not exact. If I want something in the style of Dali or Michelangelo AI will cough something up that could have been by that artist. We will be seeing more beautiful images, not less.
So, all is well and good if you have no intention of paying an artist for their work.
@@nokomarie1963 Until AI came along I was looking for Public Domain images because I couldn't afford to pay an artist to illustrate the works I wanted covers for, Thanks to AI, I can be the artist. In fact, I flatter myself I'm so good at it, that I am seriously thinking of selling my art work rather than my plays or translations. Selling art is much easier to do because the public can decide immediately if they like the artwork,; not so with books which must actually be read. Having a good cover clearly plays a part in a decision to purchase a book. Plays do not sell well, foreign plays in translation even less so even when the names of the author are familiar like Victor Hugo or Alexandre Dumas or Leo Tolstoi. Accordingly, though I have been published by small presses, my publishers usually find public domain works for use as covers. Publishers certainly are not going to risk any money employing artists to create covers for works that won't sell much in any event. No artist is losing money because of this. Ther realities of the marketplace are not going to be changed by AI. Good images will sell well, others less so.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation and comment, and I've been really pleased with the response to this video in particular. At the risk of starting a fight though, I have to register my complete dissent from your praise for AI. I'm not a religious man but I smell the work of the devil in this development, whether it's in art, literature or music. In my book, and I suspect that of most viewers of the channel, these artforms are expressions one way or another of the human soul. And having seen some of the results of AI image creation that's the one ingredient that can't be replicated. So ultimately it's at best a sophisticated form of clipart. Sorry to rant but I feel very strongly about this trend. You, of course, are absolutely entitled to not share my sentiments, and it's always possible I'm just being a luddite.
@@petebeard Why don't you give it a try and see if you still feel that way ? My reaction at first was a bit skeptical. I recall many years ago that Isaac Asimov told a colleague "We've got computers that can compose music now." And his colleague's reply was--"Maybe you'll get computers to listen it." And for many years that was my attitude. But my attitude has changed.
When I was young (around 14-15) I wanted to be Michelangelo. My High School had an art course with a fine teacher, but I soon realized I would never be Michelangelo and gave up the idea for doing things I could do, and do pretty well. But now, at 82, I find I can turn out work that is compelling, attention grabbing and sometimes as powerful as anything the masters did. For example while I respect Egon Schiele's talent as an artist I find some of his work very difficult to look at. But, I found that in doing portraits his technique can often bring out mental pain in his subjects. And somehow AI manages replicate this. One of the best things I've done with AI was of a famous female movie star in Schiele's style and she looked beautiful but tortured with some inner grief. It may not be her soul, she may never have suffered unspeakable grief but the AI generated image makes it look as if she had. And it looks beautiful. And beauty after all is said and done is a joy forever
@@frankmorlock9134Hello again and how's this for a quick reponse - but you won't like it. I have used AI and I find it unconvincing. So I'll let the future decide its value while remaining implacably of the opinion that if people with no talent or skill can do it it's just more 21st century garbage. Discussion over.
i love your films and the voice is so relaxing
Hello and thanks a lot for your favourable comment. I can take no credit whatsoever for my vocal chords but I'm grateful just the same.
Also, he reminds me of Rene Magritte both about the same age.
Hello and yes they are similar. Funnily enough Stoecklin was using surrealism in his work before Magritte actually got round to it, and he also created his bowler hatted man poster a decade or two before Magritte's famous figure.
Thanks Mr. Beard!
No problem.
I was a bit confused as to the identity of the yellow flower on the right at 6:16 - all the others are well-known medicinal plants appropriate to a pharmaceutical mural - castor oil plant, opium poppy, ergot on the rye and foxglove next to it. Then I realised it was the now-ignored cardiac medicine/poison Adonis vernalis from the buttercup family. All his work was good but the later botanical studies are perfect. At 11:09 we again have ergot hanging above the easily-recognised Deadly Nightshade in flower and fruit, at the far left.
Hello and I can see how you got the name pattheplanter. Nice bit of detective work and it never occurred to me that the plants were chosen for their pharmaceutical use.
7:43 that's pretty meta.
Brilliant series, thank you!
Have you showcased Errol le Cain? Would love to see a video on his work.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. There's good and not so good news about Errol le Cain. The good news is providing I don't get hit by a bus or otherwise fall off my own perch any time soon he will definitely be covered on the channel. The not so good is that there are still a fair old number in more advanced stages of completion so it may be a while before he gets his turn. On the other hand he wouldn't be the first or last to jump the queue. Sorry I can't do better - for now at least.
@@petebeard Well that definitely is good news that he’s on your radar - thanks for your response. 😊
I saved the 'mourning cloak' butterfly. There's always so much given to what a person's 'style' is, and even though he's recognizable for some of his work, ie the product posters, he generally just let his vast imagination rule his works, allowing whatever struck his fancy that day - maybe from some other artist's work he saw or just an idea he'd had and wanted to try out - and could do it. That's how artists should be allowed to work. Instead of being slotted, used up, and tossed aside for the next clever hand. I'm glad he had a long and stable career at doing what he loved from a very young age. Lucky bastard, eh.
Hello and thanks for your observations about Stoecklin's work. Like quite a few others he was a recent discovery for me and to say I was impressed would be a massive understatement.
Evidently, I have to come to your channel to watch these wonderfully educational efforts, all because TH-cam is ass hole.
3:32 beautifully hallucinatory.
Nicely put.
Great.
Swiss,Swiss, Swiss, more Swiss! Graphics all the way!
Youll be pleased to know there are at least a couple of other similar Swiss talents in the pipeline, then.
El entendió diseño gráfico desde el punto de vista del arte 🎩tip.
He understood graphic design from the point of view of art.
Hola, y tienes toda la razón al respecto.
Dear Mr. Beard. I've enjoyed your videos with the excellent art selections and your most suitable and informative narration. It should be on PBS. I'd be glad to send you a biography, I wrote for young teens, about a beloved illustrator from Saxony. Unfortunately his birthdate is outside your 1850-1910 inclusion range, otherwise I'd ask if you had made a video about him. If you're interested let me know. Enjoy your day today! (I didn't include the title since your site shouldn't be a place for commenters to hawk products.)
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel. Regarding the mystery illustrator from Saxony, unfortunately I don't give out my e-mail as not everyone is as well imtentioned as you obviously are. But if you would give me his name I'd be happy to check out his work.
Wowie!!!! Incredible work! Was there a ham, that he reissued, but darker than the first time?
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed his work. And yes there was an early ham - painted - and a later flat graphic version for the same company.
Speechless.
Hello and I'll take that as a positive response to his work.
@@petebeard and yours….
Fantastic.
Hello and thanks.
If you take in requests, would you please make a video on Eyvind Earle?
Hello, and the good news is that Eyvind Earle is on my 'to do' list. But the not so good is that he's waiting in line behind others who are in much more advanced stages of development. So I can't promise when, and we'll both have to keep out fingers crossed I don't fall off my perch any time soon.
Don't know if you have covered Killian Mullarney and his precision illustrations in Collins bird guide. With bird migration just starting had my interest in birds up again and looked up this book.
Hello and thanks for the suggestion. There's no reason you would know this, but Mr. Mullarney is disqualified from inclusion in this series as he is very much alive and kicking. Younger than me in fact. You have to be dead to become a member. But the good news is I'm currently putting together a potted history of wildlife art and he will certainly feature there. No idea when it'll be finished though as I've got literally dozens of others on the go and I'm terminally disorganised.
@@petebeard Ah I see, missed this. Cheers
Jeepers… I love his work…
...and so it seems do plenty of other viewers I'm very pleased to say.
Can you tell me the name of the piano piece played at the end of the video?
Hello. It's called 'Nordic' and it's by somebody calling themselves Crowander. You can find - and download it - from the youtube music library.
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Not just wonderful art but also fabulous typography. Can we assume he did both or was someone else doing the lettering?
Hello and thanks for the comment. That's one of many things I failed to discover conclusively about his working methods, but responsibility for the total design was generally the norm in Europe at the time. And there is at least one piece that this was the case with the visual and finished printed poster for Eisenwek Clus transmission in 1925 that's in the video.